Girdle supporter



April 14, 1931. 1. l'rKowlTz ET A1.

GIRDLE SUPPORTER Filed Nov Patented Apr. 14, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT orFicE SIDORE ITKOWITZ ANI) GERTRUDE SAVAGE, F NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS T0 CRESCENT GLARTERA CO.` INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK GIRDLE SUPPORTER Application led November 22, 1928. Serial No. 321,243.

This invention relates to devices for providing an elastic pull in two directions at right angles to each other and has for its principal object the provision of a belt to encircle an object and to resist a pull away from the plane of the center line of the belt without material pulling the belt itself in the same direction, for example, when the belt is worn around the waist of a person a downward pull on the Vcenter of the elastic will notpull the belt downward but will draw the belt just a bit more snugly about the waist of the wearer.

An important and specific object of the present invention is to provide a girdle supporter which will snugly engage the waist of theV wearer and which will not materially distort Ydownwardly when a pull is exerted upon one or more garment supporters attached to thebelt. Y

A further obj ect of the invention-is to provide an elastic coupling for a horizontal waist encircling member where ka load is to be taken in a down direction.

In all girdle supporters known to us there has been a very material downward yielding of the belt near the load upon excess pressure upon a hose supporter, for example, attached to the belt, and while it is not 3o new to connect the two ends of a belt by an elastic band and to have in addition downwardly directed tapes, a load on the tapes has invariably'been transmitted to the ends of the elastic in a direction more downwardly than horizontally with a consequent material pulling down of the ends of the belt where the elastics join it. Such action is necessarily present in every case where the direction of the tape supporting the load is at an angle of more than 45o to the horizontal. i

We eliminate this objectionable tilting of the belt by providing two parallel pieces of elastic webbing, one of which is horizontal and the other of which, while it may be horizontal also, is preferably downwardly di-V rected by an acute angle at each side and supports the load at its center. While we preferably make the horizontal band of 50 sli htl eater strength we obviousl may g y gr o y use the same grade of elastic webbing for all three of the pieces illustrated in each preferred coupling and when desired we can make the coupling of only two pieces as is quite obvious altho our preference is naturally for the three pieces shown.

. In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a girdle hose supporter embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a view of the invention as applied to a simple girdle. j

Figure 3 shows a modified form.

1n Figure 1 the front piece 10 is of relatively non-elastic material such, for exam ple, as a front band of satin secured to a panel of backing cloth 11 and having a tape reenforcement 12 at the rear. The back pieceli may be of exactly the same shape and size as the front piece altho this obviously is optional. The two iiexible, relatively non elastic, pieces 1() and 14 are connected together by two strips 15 of elastic material, these four pieces forming a complete circlet or belt.

From each joint such as 16 a strip of elastic webbing 17 extends downwardly at an acute angle which may bevery small but is generally less than 300 and is preferably about 2()o as we find this angle to be most convenient and efficient. lWe prefer that the webbing 15, which is the straight portion, shall be of greater strength than the portion or portions 17 if the angle is very small altho with the preferred angle of roughly 20 we use the saine grade of webbing for the two strips 17 as for the straight strip 15. The two downwardly extending strips 17 are secured together at the obtuse angle shown and are reenforced as indicated at 18 and the stitches 19 also pass thru a. length of garter elastic 2O carrying at its lower end any preferred form of securing means such 'for example as 21. The front piece 10 also carries a pair of garment supporting elastics as illustrated.

ln Figure 2 the non-elastic portions which are numbered 25 and 26 will be at the side of the wearer and these pieces are identical with the pieces 1() and 14,- of the hose supporter of Figure 1. The elastic coupling elements are also identical with those shown in Figure 1 save that the hose supporting strips 20 are replaced by non-elastic tabs 27 which will be directly in front and ydirectly behind the wearer instead of at the sides asin the hose supporter. A suitable fastening device such as 30 is attached to each tab 27 by a short piece of silk ribbon 29. Y.

In Figure v3 the circlet is formed of` a single piece of non-elastic material 31, the two ends 32 andv 33 of which are connected together by two strips of` elastic webbing 34 and 35, the front portion 35 being of slightly less strength and/or of greater length than the rear strip 34. The elastic strip 35 carries a tab 36 to support a load of any kind.

In each of the devices illustrated the belt l preferably has no detachable ends but forms a complete Circlet, the full elasticity of which is due to the strips or the strip 34k plus the resilience of the strips 17 or the strip 35 respectively since obviously the outside elastic strips will in part resist the extensionV of the l `Circlet or belt necessary to t the wearer. .A

normal downward pull on the hose support- Vers or on the two tabs 27 will cause an elongation of the diagonal strips 17 or of the single strip but will cause only a very minute downward movement of thejadjacent ends of the non-elastic portions Should the pull be so great as to stretch the angle to a point where it exceeds 15o there will be a decided down movement of the ends of the belt but such a pull is quite excessive and the clasps 21 should always be so positioned on the stockings that the angle will not exceed 35 at the very most under an excessive pull, v and with an angle of say 25o pull. In this connection it should be rememwith a normal bered that while the downward angle of the strips 17 is preferably about 20 when the belt is not in position on the wearer this angle becomes appreciably less, say 6" to 15o when the belt isworn and before the hose supporters are fastened. Upon securing the clasps to the stockings the angle again increases to about 20O so that whether the device is on or off theangle of the outside elastic strips is aptrated at 38 proximately the same. l

It is sometimes desirable to provide for the carryingby the sanitary belt of a small" sachet bag." In Figure 2 such a bag is illusends of the replaced from time to time. While we prefer that the sachet bag be located as just recited for in 'that way the and may be sewed directly to the elastic l5 or it may be lightly sewedto the pieces 25 and 26 since it will be tially non-extensible, horizontal portion, a

rear, horizontal, substantially non-extensible portion, horizontal elastic bands connecting together the adjacent sides of the front portion and the rear portion to complete a waist encircling belt, and an elastic band positioned substantially parallel tothe horizontal elastic bands at each side, each joining the front portion and the back portion and lying outside of the adjacent horizontal elastic band, said outside elastic band being'slightly greater in non-extended length than the inner horizontal elastic bands, and a side hose supportingV member at the mid-portion of each outside elastic band.

2. A supporting device comprising a waist encircling member partly of elastic and part-v elastic portion throughout the length of the directly connecting portion but being Vslightly greater in non-extended length, the center of the longer elastic section beingV adapted to support apiece of fabric vto Vhold it in position on the wearer. Y

3. In a supporting device, circling member consisting in part of nonelastic material and in part of elastic material, Vsaid elastic material connecting two ends of non-elastic material and consisting VaV 'body envof; two independentV bands, a garment holding means on the vouter Vof the two bands and a sachet bag in engagement with the two bands so that as the outer band is stretched in use it Vwill rub against the sachet bag and cause a diffusing of the powder therein.

In testimony whereof I affix my signautre. Y ISIDORE ITKOWITZ. f

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sachet bag is located bei ktween the elastic band 15 and the jointed band i 17 so that as the-wearer walks or moves the bands will each rub against the sachet bag, in this manner diusing the powder in the bag, vwe have provided the 'snap fastener 39 at the top ofthe tab 27 which'is itself a small bag stitched together at" made' up of two sheets 

